How Burning Out From an Award Winning Job Improved My Life with Erika Ferszt

Moodally Matters

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

In this introductory episode of Moodally Matters, we get to know our host, Erika, founder of Moodally. By turning the tables and answering her own standard interview questions, Erika shares her personal history, experience with workplace burnout, and journey to combining a passion for the neuroscience behind mental health with her background in business to create a revolutionary approach to managing mood in organizations. Erika also teaches us how to recognize and regulate our moods by listening to our bodies and questioning our thoughts. If you’ve ever wondered what advice an expert in organizational psychology and mental health would offer to those entering the workforce, you’ll want to stick around until the end of this very special first episode.

ABOUT THE HOST:

Erika Ferszt is the founder of Moodally, which offers innovative, science-backed mood management solutions to improve employee performance while reducing burnout. Erika is also an experienced keynote speaker, delivering powerful messages to groups all over the globe. Erika has nearly two decades of experience as a senior advertising executive and won over 70 awards for her work with Ray-Ban. After being hospitalized with stress-related vision loss in 2015, Erika returned to school to study the Neuroscience of Mental Health at Kings College London before completing her Masters in Science in Behavioral and Organizational Psychology at London Metropolitan University. She was recently selected as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Ventures and has made it her mission to help organizations improve well-being, resilience, and performance through mood management.

SHOW NOTES:

In this episode of Moodally Matters, host Erika Ferszt shares her personal history and sets the stage for the insight and wisdom to come in this incredible podcast. Highlights include:

-Erika’s exciting and unusual childhood growing up in NYC that would ultimately spark an interest in psychology and human behavior.

-A look at Erika’s professional history, from her stint as a legal administrator by day and a club promoter by night (under the same boss, no less!) to Italian ad agencies to managing media for a luxury brand.

-How a mysterious medical issue changed the way Erika thought about her career burnout, stress, and taking care of herself.

-Erika’s return to school to study the neuroscience of psychology and mental health and organization psychology.

-The creation of Moodally to address burnout and workplace moods and improve people’s lives.

-What well-being at work means to Erika, and how she strives to achieve it by being in sync with her body, feelings, and mind.

-Some of Erika’s favorite well-being interventions to improve your mood (and your life!)

-Three pieces of advice Erika would give to someone entering the workforce.

Links:

Visit Moodally Website: https://www.moodally.com

Follow Moodally on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moodally

Follow Moodally on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moodally.wellness

Follow Moodally on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/moodally